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As a writer, you get to play, you get alter time, you get to come up with the smart lines and the clever comebacks you wish you'd thought of.

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Iain Banks
Age: 59 †
Born: 1954
Born: February 16
Died: 2013
Died: June 9
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Iain M. Banks
Iain Menzies Banks
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Intellectual achievement. The exercise of skill. Human feeling.
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Any theory which causes solipsism to seem just as likely an explanation for the phenomena it seeks to describe ought to be held in the utmost suspicion.
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Most mainstream male fiction is littered with heroines, and female characters are basically so great, you want to fall in love with them.
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I held my crotch, closed my eyes and repeated my secret catechism.
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The truth is not always useful, not always good. It’s like putting your faith in water. Yes, we need the rain, but too much can sweep you away in a flood and drown you. Like all great natural, elemental forces, the truth needs to be channeled, managed, controlled and intelligently, morally allocated.
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Don't you have a religion? Dorolow asked Horza. Yes, he replied, not taking his eyes away from the screen on the wall above the end of the main mess-room table. My survival.
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-Then what, Lededje asked, trying to keep her voice cold and not get caught up in the avatar´s obvious enthusiasm, is making you smile about a disaster? -Well, first, I didn´t cause it! Nothing to do with me, hands clean. Always a bonus.
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I think we need politicians we need people who want to serve.
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There's an old Sysan saying that the soup of life is salty enough without adding tears to it.
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There are no gods, we are told, so I must make my own salvation.
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My gratitude extends beyond the limits of my capacity to express it.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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Escape is a consumer goods like another
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What is any achievement, however great it was, once time itself is dead?
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I just come up with the stories and write them as well as I can. There's not really a great deal of strokey-beard thinking going on.
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I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's largely because I spend my working life staring at a screen and hitting a keyboard, I am trying to cut down on that, not increase it.
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Writing is like everything else: the more you do it the better you get. Don't try to perfect as you go along, just get to the end of the damn thing. Accept imperfections. Get it finished and then you can go back. If you try to polish every sentence there's a chance you'll never get past the first chapter.
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Science fiction is trying to find alternative ways of looking at realities.
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After doing extensive research, I can definitely tell you that single malt whiskies are good to drink.
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Even galaxy-spanning anarchist utopias of stupefying full-spectrum civilisational power have turf wars within their unacknowledged militaries.
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